growing interest in psychology, sociology, and economics. A quantitative genetic research design provides the necessary tools …

earnings deter risk-averse individuals. In this paper I analyse the expected value and variance of income in self …-employment entry and exit under risk are estimated, which include a standard risk aversion parameter. The model predicts that the …

risk taking. Expanding her dataset with more American observations and data for Germany, Spain and Italy, we find mixed … to attitudes towards risk taking. …

We estimate the effect of parental separation on the risk and trust attitudes of German adolescents using a large … adolescents from separated families are less trusting but have the same risk tolerance as adolescents from non-separated families …. Moreover, for both trust and risk, we find that separation attenuates the transmission of preferences from father to child …

agreeableness, conscientiousness, and neuroticism, some of which depend on the reference group. Furthermore, risk and fairness …

We present first evidence how individual risk preferences shape entrepreneurial investment among the very wealthy using … standard measure of risk tolerance. We find that wealthy individuals are more likely to be entrepreneurs and invest a larger … ways strongly determined by individual risk tolerance. Since the wealthy dominate aggregate risky investment, their risk …